Sr. SDE, Machine Learning, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

Amazon
USA, NY, New York2026-04-24ONSITE

About the job

Just finished “Rings of Power” or “Thursday Night Football” and want to find something new to stream? So do tens of millions of our Prime Video customers. The Prime Video Recommendation team's mission is to leverage state of the art Machine Learning (ML) systems that establish deep connections between customers and their favorite Movies, TV shows, and Live Events in order to power highly personalized recommendations, identify the most delightful content for each customer to engage with at the right time, in the right place, across Prime Video. We help our customers find content they didn’t even know they were looking for, continuing to surprise them with the breadth and depth of content available to enjoy.

Responsibilities

Building services with Tier-1 availability and performance characteristics while enabling Day-1 innovation capabilities.

Evolve the Prime Video Storefront orchestration strategy to enable continuous experimentation and feature delivery that keeps pace with innovations in state-of-art ML capabilities.

Extending solutions to support constantly evolving landscape of Prime Video - Live Sports, Linear TV, etc.

Leading & Partnering on developing strategic technical vision for the PV Recommendations space.

Partnering with Product, Scientists and Engineering stakeholders

Qualifications

Minimum

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent